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Re: FW: [Fwd: please read this]

Actually, this version may indeed be the fake.  The real version, according to Urban Legends, http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/virushoaxes1/a/mail_server.htm reports a very real virus, so the warning is the same: don't be opening email you don't recognize, and be "weary" [sic] of zip files you haven't requested.
 
From the Urban Legends website:
THIS VERSION IS TRUE:
Email example contributed by M. Stutt, Dec. 16, 2006:

Subject: virus warning, please tell your friends

This one checks out and is a bona fide real virus so hence the warning.

Any email with "Mail Server Report" in the subject line is a new virus and should not be opened. It comes with an attachment in zip format. Apparently there is a Zip file attached so be very weary of any thing with a zip file on it.

The message tells you that a worm was detected in an e-mail that you sent out and asks you to open and install the attachment to fix the problem. Only, it IS the problem! DO NOT DO IT! Delete the e-mail.

This is a real threat.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Anthony Lyman-Dixon <a*@aol.com> wrote:

Sorry if this is a fake but the source is reliable. Worth checking out perhaps

Anthony

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Debz Tidy [mailto:d*@hotmail.com]
Sent: 05 January 2009 20:28
To: a*@aol.com; Dad; jeanette; jeremy tidy; louise taylor; Michelle; Sam Timms; t*@hotmail.com
Subject: FW: [Fwd: please read this]

 

 

From: w*@hotmail.com
To: a*@skyburst.co.uk; a*@thefirework.co.uk; s*@hotmail.com; b*@hotmail.co.uk; b*@hotmail.com; b*@gmail.com; c*@hotmail.co.uk; d*@hotmail.com; d*@gmail.com; e*@hotmail.com; f*@hotmail.com; t*@blueyonder.co.uk; j*@hotmail.co.uk; k*@hotmail.com; k*@hotmail.com; l*@googlemail.com; l*@chanter.co.uk; t*@hotmail.com; l*@hotmail.com; l*@hotmail.com; n*@mbda.co.uk; d*@hotmail.com; s*@hotmail.co.uk; t*@hotmail.com; y*@hotmail.com
Subject: FW: [Fwd: please read this]
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:29:51 +0000


From: r*@hotmail.co.uk
To: a*@hotmail.co.uk; a*@hotmail.co.uk; a*@hotmail.co.uk; a*@hotmail.co.uk; f*@hotmail.com; b*@hotmail.com; c*@hotmail.com; c*@hotmail.co.uk; h*@hotmail.com; d*@hotmail.co.uk; d*@hotmail.co.uk; d*@hotmail.co.uk; e*@hotmail.co.uk; e*@hotmail.co.uk; g*@hotmail.co.uk; g*@hotmail.co.uk; g*@hotmail.co.uk; h*@hotmail.com; h*@hotmail.co.uk; h*@hotmail.co.uk; h*@hotmail.co.uk; i*@hotmail.com; j*@hotmail.com; j*@hotmail.co.uk; j*@hotmail.co.uk; j*@hotmail.co.uk; j*@hotmail.co.uk; k*@hotmail.co.uk; k*@hotmail.com; l*@hotmail.co.uk; l*@hotmail.co.uk; l*@hotmail.co.uk; l*@hotmail.com; l*@hotmail.co.uk; m*@hotmail.co.uk; m*@hotmail.co.uk; n*@hotmail.com; r*@hotmail.com; r*@hotmail.co.uk; s*@hotmail.co.uk; s*@hotmail.co.uk; v*@hotmail.co.uk; w*@hotmail.com; s*@gmail.com
Subject: FW: [Fwd: please read this]
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 20:08:40 +0000


From: m*@hotmail.co.uk
To: r*@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: FW: [Fwd: please read this]
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:17:13 +0000


From: V*@aol.com
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:50:46 -0500
Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: please read this]
To: m*@telefonica.net; m*@yahoo.co.uk; m*@hotmail.co.uk; b*@bbmac.co.uk; t*@hotmail.com; S*@aol.com; b*@yahoo.co.uk; p*@pbd.uk.com; a*@amandasouter.com


 



--Forwarded Message Attachment--
From: b*@hotmail.com
To: v*@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: please read this]
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:58:51 +0000


See below
Bobby Warans

0208 576 1220


Begin forwarded message:

 

 

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS


 

 

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS, S0 PLEASE SEND TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAIL LIST!!

Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.

This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton Please send it to everybody you know who has Access to the Internet.

You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled  'Mail Server Report'

If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen saying: 'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.'

Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC, And the person who sent it to you will gain access to your Name, e-mail and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL has  already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus software's are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.

PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THI S E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to
PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!

THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp



 


Barbara J. Torrey, REALTOR, ABR
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International Diamond Society Member
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P Please consider the environment before printing this email.



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--Forwarded Message Attachment--
From: b*@hotmail.com
To: v*@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: please read this]
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:58:51 +0000


See below
Bobby Warans

0208 576 1220


Begin forwarded message:

 

 

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS


 

 

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS, S0 PLEASE SEND TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAIL LIST!!

Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.

This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton Please send it to everybody you know who has Access to the Internet.

You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled  'Mail Server Report'

If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen saying: 'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.'

Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC, And the person who sent it to you will gain access to your Name, e-mail and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL has  already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus software's are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.

PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THI S E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to
PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!

THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp



 


Barbara J. Torrey, REALTOR, ABR
www.NewEnglandMoves.com/Barbara.Torrey.home
International Diamond Society Member
Awarded to top 7% of Coldwell Banker Sales Associates Worldwide
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
633 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02118
617-620-0485 cell
617-262-3755 fax
617-796-8772 voicemail
P Please consider the environment before printing this email.



New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines.

 

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--Forwarded Message Attachment--
From: b*@hotmail.com
To: v*@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: please read this]
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:58:51 +0000


See below
Bobby Warans

0208 576 1220


Begin forwarded message:

 

 

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS


 

 

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS, S0 PLEASE SEND TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAIL LIST!!

Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.

This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton Please send it to everybody you know who has Access to the Internet.

You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled  'Mail Server Report'

If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen saying: 'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.'

Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC, And the person who sent it to you will gain access to your Name, e-mail and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL has  already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus software's are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.

PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THI S E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to
PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!

THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp



 


Barbara J. Torrey, REALTOR, ABR
www.NewEnglandMoves.com/Barbara.Torrey.home
International Diamond Society Member
Awarded to top 7% of Coldwell Banker Sales Associates Worldwide
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
633 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02118
617-620-0485 cell
617-262-3755 fax
617-796-8772 voicemail
P Please consider the environment before printing this email.



New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines.

 

Take your friends with you with Mobile Messenger. Click Here!

--Forwarded Message Attachment--
From: b*@hotmail.com
To: v*@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: please read this]
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:58:51 +0000


See below
Bobby Warans

0208 576 1220


Begin forwarded message:

 

 

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS


 

 

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS, S0 PLEASE SEND TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAIL LIST!!

Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.

This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton Please send it to everybody you know who has Access to the Internet.

You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled  'Mail Server Report'

If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen saying: 'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.'

Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC, And the person who sent it to you will gain access to your Name, e-mail and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL has  already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus software's are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.

PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THI S E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to
PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!

THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp



 


Barbara J. Torrey, REALTOR, ABR
www.NewEnglandMoves.com/Barbara.Torrey.home
International Diamond Society Member
Awarded to top 7% of Coldwell Banker Sales Associates Worldwide
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
633 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02118
617-620-0485 cell
617-262-3755 fax
617-796-8772 voicemail
P Please consider the environment before printing this email.



New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines.

 

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See below
Bobby Warans
0208 576 1220

Begin forwarded message:

 

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS

 
 
THIS IS VERY SERIOUS, S0 PLEASE SEND TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAIL LIST!!

Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.

This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton Please send it to everybody you know who has Access to the Internet.

You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled  'Mail Server Report'

If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen saying: 'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.'

Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC, And the person who sent it to you will gain access to your Name, e-mail and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL has  already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus software's are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.

PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THI S E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to
PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!

THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp



 

Barbara J. Torrey, REALTOR, ABR
www.NewEnglandMoves.com/Barbara.Torrey.home
International Diamond Society Member
Awarded to top 7% of Coldwell Banker Sales Associates Worldwide
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
633 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02118
617-620-0485 cell
617-262-3755 fax
617-796-8772 voicemail
P Please consider the environment before printing this email.



New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines.


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